Rim and bicycle wheel with wings having compensated waving

Process for making a rim, suitable for being coupled with a hub through a plurality of spokes tightened to form a bicycle wheel, comprising the steps of:

• a) making a rim comprising a pair of wings connected by at least one bridge and having a circumference;
• b) providing a plurality of spoke attachment areas and a plurality of intermediate areas in the at least one bridge, alternating in a circumferential direction;
• wherein in step a) the wings are shaped and sized so that the axial distance between the wings at the spoke attachment areas is different from the axial distance between the wings at the intermediate areas.

A bicycle wheel rim having sidewalls joined together by a lower bridge with spoke attachment areas through which spokes join the rim to a hub, and intermediate areas between the spoke attachment areas, wherein before a tire mounted on the rim is inflated, opposed outer sides of the sidewalls of the rim are spaced apart by different distances at locations on the opposed sidewalls corresponding to the spoke attachment areas and intermediate areas.

A method for producing a bicycle wheel rim comprising the steps of:

• a) forming a bicycle rim;
• and
• b) shaping the rim's two spaced apart outer sides such that the rim's outer sides are spaced apart by different distances depending on their location around a circumference of the rim corresponding to spoke attachment areas where spokes join to the rim and intermediate areas located between the spoke attachment areas.

A bicycle wheel rim having sidewalls joined together by a lower bridge, wherein before a tire mounted on the rim is inflated, opposed outer sides of the sidewalls of the rim are spaced apart by different distances depending on whether the outer sides are located proximate or remote to spoke attachment areas where spokes join the rim to a hub, such that inflation of the tire to a predetermined pressure, the sidewalls are parallel.